Artist Quotes

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

As artists, it's really important to take time to see what other art is happening and to know what's happening in the world.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

I really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics.

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.

I feel like fashion and style is a big part of being an artist.

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.

I'm a traditional martial artist and I'm always going to carry myself in the most respectful way I can.

Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.

I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. Thats double happiness.

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with other people who are artists, creative people who give you a sense of family.

What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.

There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.

Every artist has a very particular sound and style.

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I like high energy songs by artists like Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary], and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.

My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

A lot of stuff you hear on the radio is like instant hooky pop, but I can't imagine it being covered in the future by other artists. It's really for themselves.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And Rembrandt because he paints the ugly so beautifully.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.